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Domestic Winter Survival Guide
The thermometer’s about to fall below 20 and not come back up. What are you going to do about it?
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Truth and Reconciliation and the City
On Monday night, Yellowknife city council voted unanimously to adopt six of the 99 recommendations made by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The vote came as the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation arrived in town to consult with former residential school students on how their stories should best be presented. “I think it’s important for all
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Alex Sparling Goes Hollywood
Yellowknifer Alex Sparling, the wise-cracking class clown who once played a fart in a Sir John High School drama production, has just been tapped on the shoulder by NBC Universal. On Tuesday night, the 27-year-old comic received an email informing him he’d been chosen as a finalist in the NBC Standup Diversity Showcase. That means
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Farewell, C-Shaft Headframe
For 25 years, Bill Powless began his workday in a steel cage. Below him, a mineshaft, 2000 feet deep. Above him, the C-Shaft headframe – the central point of a huge pulley system that hauled ore to the surface and lowered miners into the depths of the earth. On his daily trips downward, Powless had to
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Exit Interview: What Dennis Bevington Learned in 10 years as MP
When the NDP showed an early surge in the polls this fall, many believed the 2015 federal election could be Dennis Bevington’s breakthrough after spending three terms trapped in opposition to an increasingly unresponsive Conservative government. Few observers, including several at this publication, thought he was in any danger of actually losing his seat. But on Oct.
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The GNWT’s Dangerous Affair with China
The Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement will likely frustrate Northerners’ efforts to manage climate change and steward natural resources On EDGE | Opinion The Government of the NWT under Premier Bob McLeod is having an affair with China. The premier has made five trips to China, offered the Chinese eight NWT rivers for hydroelectric
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Elections Bring Optimism For Dehcho’s Stalled Land Claim
Everybody comes to the Dehcho: Tom Berger, Herb Norwegian and David Suzuki in a still from the 2004 documentary Ghosts of Futures Past | Courtesy Elanfilms After over 20 years of negotiations, the Dehcho land claim process has seen its fair share of federal and territorial governments come and go. But with the end of
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Cochrane-Johnson Running in Range Lake
Caroline Cochrane-Johnson, CEO of the Yellowknife Women’s Society, which runs the Centre for Northern Families, is challenging Daryl Dolynny in Range Lake and hoping to help fill the progressive space in the legislature left by departing Wendy Bisaro and Bob Bromley. “I think it was a really nice composition when we had someone that was representing women,
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Yellowknifers: The Greeter
In 1994, Tom Holst was working as the breakfast cook at the Explorer Hotel when Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visited Yellowknife. Hotel staff were given strict orders that only the head chef and sous chef were to cook for the royal couple. And no one else. “At 7 a.m., the Queen’s valet came
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Inside The Gold Range: A Reader Writes
After reading last week’s YK Mythbusters about the Gold Range and its possible per capita beer sales record, reader and ex-Yellowknifer Dorothy Mellor wrote us a fascinating follow-up: “The nickname ‘Strange Range’ was originally given to the Gold Range bar which existed before the one that is there now. By way of background, my sister
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City vs. GNWT: After the Failed Suit, What Next?
It may have been pure coincidence, but Justice L.A. Charbonneau gave Mayor Mark Heyck something of a gift by waiting until after the election to shoot down the City’s bid for more political representation in the legislative assembly. The day after Heyck was handed a solid mandate for the next three years, Charbonneau released her
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Jack Danylchuk Hits The Road
Behind his gruff exterior, Jack’s one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet. I first met Jack Danylchuk in the summer of 2004 at the Yellowknifer, my first reporting job. Looking around, I quickly realized he was the only journalist with any real experience, having spent years doing award-winning work at the Edmonton Journal. From
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Gino Pin’s Newest Project: Ending Homelessness in YK
Taking a page out of Medicine Hat’s housing first book, a group of Yellowknifers is planning to end homelessness within the next few years. The idea: bring government, businesses, NGOs and private citizens together to develop housing and supports for people currently living on the streets. The Homeful Partnership, a group of a dozen or
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The Deh Cho Bridge’s Rising Toll
After three years, the Deh Cho Bridge might finally be starting to pay for itself. The $202-million monument to the dangers of unstable financial backing managed to rake in more revenues from tolling during the latest fiscal year than anticipated, according to Transportation officials. Tolls for freight vehicles heading northwards across the bridge added up